אוּרʼÛwr

אוּר: proper name, masculine: father of one of David's heroes (1 Chronicles 11:35)

Pronunciation: oor · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H218

Meanings

אור: proper name [of a location]: Ur, ancient city in Southern Babylonia (Genesis 11:28; Genesis 15:7; Nehemiah 9:7; Genesis 11:31)

Same root

אוּרʼûwr · H217flame; hence (in the plural) the East (as being the region of light)

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

Genesis 11:28 But Haran died in Ur of the Chaldeans, the land of his birth, while his father, Terah, was still living.
Genesis 11:31 One day Terah took his son Abram, his daughter-in-law Sarai (his son Abram’s wife), and his grandson Lot (his son Haran’s child) and moved away from Ur of the Chaldeans. He was headed for the land of Canaan, but they stopped at Haran and settled there.
Genesis 15:7 Then the Lord told him, “I am the Lord who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land as your possession.”
1 Chronicles 11:35 Ahiam son of Sharar from Harar; Eliphal son of Ur;
Nehemiah 9:7 “You are the Lord God, who chose Abram and brought him from Ur of the Chaldeans and renamed him Abraham.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).